Desmond Foley

Managing Director

Desmond Foley is the founder and MD of Focus Engineering. He has worked in the Automation Industry for more than 20 years.

Des has worked in many industries including Pharmacuetical, Power Generation, Oil and Gas, Food and Beverage and Medical Supplies.

He has been responsible for activities ranging from design, program development, testing and commissioning of PLC control systems, to the management of automation projects as a Senior Projects/Automation Engineer.

Des endeavours to provide superior quality service to all of Focus Engineering's customers.

Shane Kelly

Senior Automation Engineer

Shane Kelly is a senior Automation Engineer with Focus Engineering, with over 10 years experience in the Electrical and Automation industry.

Shane has experience of many industries including: Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, Power Generation, Gas, Plastics and Manufacturing. Shane is also a Certified Machinery Safety Expert (CMSE) and can provide solutions for machinery safety to align with current standards.

Some of the areas which Shane can offer engineering solutions include:

Full OEE and Data Analysis using Ignition by Inductive Automation, PLC program development, SCADA design and programming, Software/Hardware and Database redundancy, 21 CFR Part 11 and Annex 11 compliance for Electronic Records and Electronic Signatures.

Ray O'Hara

Automation Engineer

Ray is Focus Engineers newest recruit and has extensive experience in the world of automation.

Ray is on hand to deal with any of your industrial automation queries.

Johnie McDermott

Automation Engineer

Johnie started in Focus in summer 2013 as a student and has since become an experienced automation engineer.

Johnie has had experience programming Siemens PLC's in Simatic Manager and TIA, Allen Bradley PLC's using RS Logix 500/5000. As well as PLC's Johnie has become certified for Inductive Automation's SCADA package for both Core and MES. His projects would include :

While in college Johnie had studied Electronic and Electrical Engineering at National University of Ireland Galway, where he had completed his final year project which was sponsored by Focus Engineering.

We at Focus engineering have developed a good relationship with NUI Galway's
Engineering and IT department.

Johnie has since become a fully qualified engineer and a key member to the Focus Engineering team.